wisudaan

gee,

Besok, which is Sabtu 23 Juli 2005 bakal ada wisudaan di kampus tercinta ITB. Ga tau deh. Biasanya sih tiap wisudaan kampus jadi rame, karena banyak himpunan-himpunan mahasiswa yang ngadain arak-arakan buat wisudawannya. Tapi wisudaan kali ini ga jelas, soalnya rektorat ngeluarin surat pengumuman tentang tata tertib selama wisudaan. Acaranya jadi lebih ketat. Arak-arakan ngga dilarang secara eksplisit di dalam pengumuman itu, tapi tetap saja ada warning yang mengarah ke sana (ga boleh ada arak-arakan).

Anyway, saya besok harus standby juga. Kenapa? Karena saya diminta untuk menjadi salah satu tim penyelamat wisudawan. As you might already know, di Mesin ITB (HMM, terutama), wisudawan selalu diceburin ke kolam mesin yang airnya-berwarna-hijau-pekat-asam-rasanya pada saat acara puncak perayaan wisudaan. Kalau ada wisudawan yang ternyata ga bisa berenang, that's where we're coming in, the rescue team. Yah, semacam baywatch gitu deh.

Tapi kenapa? Bukannya tahun ini seharusnya angkatan 2004 yang nanganin wisudaan, kok 2003 lagi?

Well, seharusnya emang angkatan baru yang ngadain acara perayaan wisudaan itu, khususnya untuk himpunan. Lihat saja himpunan-himpunan lainnya, yang ngadain acara wisudaan pasti 2004. Sementara itu, di Himpunan Mahasiswa Mesin ITB, angkatan 2003 masih berkutat dengan masalah-masalah wisudaan ini. Malu ngga sih? Sudah tua dan uzur besok masih harus teriak-teriak di depan pintu Sabuga sama angkatan-angkatan muda. Heheheh, lagian sih...

Hal itu terjadi karena angkatan baru (2004) untuk HMM belum dilantik. Tersendatnya regenerasi HMM tahun ini dikarenakan kaderisasinya distop oleh Departemen di saat-saat terakhir. Males banget ga sih?! A lot of reasons, pokoknya kasihan banget both 2003 sebagai panitia dan 2004 sebagai peserta. Dua-duanya menderita karena masih terbebani dengan masalah yang satu ini.

Argh, jadi males ngurusin wisudaan nih.

fricken new cellphone

see,

As you all may have already know (from friendster, that is) that I've lost my old cell-phone. So, automatically I've also lost most of my friends' numbers stored in that phone. It was indeed a great loss to me.

But what I wanted to say in here is not anything like that. It is about my new cell-phone. It is Sony-Ericsson K750i. Although it is definitely, obviously, and totally more sophisticated from its predecessor which was Nokia whatever-the series-was-I-never-actually-remember-it, one thing bothered me all the time until now.

The keypad.

They're so close to each other, narrowed distance. The pads are quite small, although I must say that it is the standard size for cell-phone's keypad. But surely, it is not comfortable at all expecially when I wanted to write or type an SMS. The problem that I always have until now is that when I wanted to type the letter "s", I always missed it with "g" or "ppp" or "qqq" or even "pgp". You know, when you want to type the letter "s", what you do is to press the "7" button four times. I just don't know why but it always happened. Sometimes it's not just with that one button (the "7" or the "s") but also with the other ones. It's really bothering. Maybe my fingers are just too big. Sometimes, I even must force to type using my nails, for accuracy. D'oh.

points from JOVED

well,

As I told you in my previous post before that I was attending the JOVED although I was there just an Observer. But it was kind of worth it. I got a lot of things to learn there. So many things. I just couldn't tell every details of it, so I'll just go with things that I got from JOVED.

New friends.
Crazy people, with crazy attitude...but sometimes could be decent also.
That I am on my first step (or was it several steps already) in becoming an Arbiter, or Firebrand, or maybe Adjudicator itself, or whatever.
Martial arts. Thanks to Master I-Sex (Isach) who had taught me some basic art of fighting although my original intention was to look for some food but ended up being taught those styles which made me even hungrier before I went to bed.
Sex...sex...and more sex! You filthy people (pointing to Master I-Sex).
Free (but illegal) food and free (also illegal) lodging.
Photos. As a test ground for my new camera-phone which Faiz's always bothered with it. OK, man...what's the point?!

What else??? I could not think of other than what I have mentioned before. Well, I guess those were the most things I could remember for now. I shall give more when I suddenly recalled it. Now I need to think.

debate contest

hell yeah,

The last time I remembered I was on that kind of situation was back on senior high school. Waktu dulu yaa masih jaman-jaman rada gak jelas gitu lah. Well, waktu itu juga sama...debating contest. Sekolah ngirim dua kelompok, the first one was filled with Irwan (not Irwan Suyudi, that is), Hana, ama Ari. Trus tim kedua consisted of me, Andres, and Finish. It was the very first time to debate in English for me.

OK, it was Friday as I recalled it very much that the competition started right after sholat Jum'at, although me and my mates already prepped ourselves since the morning. Ya begitulah, jadilah saya sholat Jum'at terlebih dahulu, bersama Andres. Finish didn't, since he was a Christian. And then, kita (me and Andres) mampirlah dulu ke rumah salah satu teman yaitu Ansol dikarenakan rumah dia dekat dengan masjid so I thought we could...y'know...do some things before go to the masjid.

So was it. Karena rumah si Ansol deket dengan masjid (which was tempat lomba debatnya juga deket dengan masjid) so we decided to unload our things there including leaving our shoes there and wore some sandal jepit instead.

Ternyata...!!! Baru saja sesaat setelah selelasi menunaikan sholat Jum'at, salah seorang kurir datang memberitahukan bahwa lomba akan segera dimulai.

"WHAT TH-?!?!" so I was shocked.

Why was I shocked? Good question. The only thing I worried about was: We were still wearing sandal jepit!!!

And for worse...my group got the first round debate...against the other group from our school which was Irwan, Hana, and Ari. Jadi ngga asik, masa baru ronde pertama dah ketemu ama tim satu sekolah. Yah, jadinya saya sama Andres terpaksa mengikuti lomba debat tersebut dengan mengenakan sandal jepit. Hihihiih...still remembered it how we tried to cover our feet behind curtains.

Anyway, about the debate, the motion was something about Cirebon being the capital of West Java. I couldn't remember much though. Debatnya ngga berjalan sesuai aturan yang saya tahu sekarang. Waktu itu ga ada first, second, and third speaker gitu. Yang penting orang yang mana yang mau ngomong ya udah trus ntar direply ama orang laen dari tim laen juga bebas aja. Jadi ya kayak debat biasa aja gitu. Ya maklum lah, it was my first time, and we didn't actually know the rules. Gak tau ya klo Irwan and his team. Harusnya sih dia lebih tahu, tapi kayaknya sama aja deh.

Akhirnya yang menang timnya si Irwan sih. Actually, I didn't care much. Soalnya waktu itu mikirnya udah, "Need to change to shoes...need to change to shoes..." dan debatnya juga gak jelas gitu lah. Newbies.

Setelah debatnya selesai, I felt sooo relieved dan kitapun langsung balik ke rumah Ansol buat ngambil barang-barang kita lagi, gak peduli lagi dengan whatever happened to the debate competition after that.

Why am I writing about this? Well, karena after quite some time (I decided not to have anything to do with English competition anymore some time ago) saya akhirnya harus ikut nimbrung lagi in debating competition. Yang satu ini, besok, Jum'at (oh my God, it's the same day as the last time) 8 Juli 2005, bakal diadain di UnPas Bandung Setiabudhi. It is called JOVED.